Quinsept's Family Roots "Orphans"

Frequently-Asked Questions

This is my own personal FAQ. If there's anything you want to know which is not
here, it wouldn't surprise me, but I'll try to find out more as I go along.

Q. How do I contact Steve Vorenberg, former president of Quinsept?
A. Steve Vorenberg, former president of Quinsept, requests that you contact Kathryn
Bassett (kathryn@bassett.net) before contacting
him. If it's necessary to contact him, the email address is scvscv@rcn.com

Q. What's the best way to transfer my FR data to another genealogy program
on a Mac?
A. Ack. Save the info as GEDCOM with Family Links and import it (if you can
get it to work), or contact Steve (above) and see if he will convert it to GEDCOM
for you. Then pray the data doesn't contain too many strange symbols and quirks --
like changing every maritial status to "Divorced."

Another way (more complicated and expensive, but perhaps more accurate!) is to
have the Mac data translated into DOS data (again, by Kathryn Bassett, kathryn@bassett.net),
then import it directly into The Master Genealogist on the PC (the only PC program
with Family Roots import capabilities), then export it from The Master Genealogist
with its more extensive export features.

Q. The GEDCOM export utility Family Links crashes my PowerMac with
a "bus error" -- what's the problem?
A. Family Links apparently doesn't run on PowerMacs -- try using it on a non-PowerMac.

Q. I can't get Family Links to work on my Mac-- what should I do?
A. Contact Karthyn Bassett (kathryn@bassett.net)
and ask if about coverting your database for you.

Q. What were the last versions of Family Roots and Family Links
?
A.

FAMILY ROOTS:

Apple DOS 3.3

3.4

Apple ProDOS

3.7C

IBM & compatible

4.4D <-- 4.5 was not released

Macintosh

3.7M

Commodore 64

3.0E

Commodore 128

3.8A

FAMILY CONNECTIONS

4.0L

FAMILY LINK for the Mac

1.3M

TREE CHARTS

3.5C

Q. Where can I obtain upgrades to the last versions?
Try contacting Kathryn Bassett (kathryn@bassett.net),
who will send out copies (with Steve's okay) if you send her a mailing label and
postage for either the PC or the Mac. Ask her for the "upgrade FAQ" for
how much postage to send. She was Quinsept's SoCal rep from 1984 on, and did the
manual for the DOS version 4. She also will, for a fee, convert Mac or Apple II databases
to PC, to make the transition to something like The Master Genealogist easier.